Improvement in cotton-gins



Tol all whom tt may conce/rn :l

1" MorrisonsMills-,- in thecoiinty of Bu ofFlorida/,havenverltedaneW and valuable Iinprovey ment inyOotton-Ginsyand I do herebydeclaiie that l the following is aifull, clear, and exact description of .l being had to the annexedfdrawing making a pa'rt of l this speoifcatiomand tot the letters and igures of ref- 4L Figure 1 of the drawing rnymprovement in plan y Figure 2 isa transverse vertical section ofthersame.

p improvement on `or; attachment to the cotton itniay beusedwith ginslof similar construction; andA l a the d otTer oftheMcOarthy gin y A represents `the doi'ei'lor stripper, held ufpositionby gauge-rods B B, Wh

l l p l t alare the `teethoxj grate of the feed-board D.

f stent @imite FnANcIsfM. MQMEEKIN, or MonRIsoNs MILLS, FLORIDA.

Letters Patent No. 115,226, dated May 23, 1871-.

l f IMPRQVEMENT IN, eoTTolt-csnxls.

.y '.lhe `Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.,-

tnamand State the construction and.operation` ofthe same, reference erenoe marked thereon.` l

view, and 1 l My inventionis intended more? particularly as an p -gin `patentedby McOarthyflSllO, `and'extendedrin 1854; but

It consists'incombiniu g `a line'of angular teeth with in correct ich-connect the dofler with a shaft,0, under the feed-board D.

My improvement may be called a shaker or agitator, `and is secured to thegangefods B B afew inches `fromthe doier' A'. l

out the-loose seed and feeding the .cotton `unto subscribed my The shaker isA composed of a row of angular teeth, b b, set in a suitable rod, E, of wood.

These teeth pass upright between the teeth a a, and then bend at a right angle or less toward the doer. l

The shaker gets its motion from the doiercoinmunieated through the gauge-rods, and, when vin motion, the horizontal portion of the teeth b'b vibrates vertically above the grate or teeth a a of the feed-board and agitates the cotton in front of the doi'er, shaking to the gin. Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, ters Patent, is-- 'Y The angular-toothed shaker E b, eonstructedas described7 and operating,r in combination with the doffer and teeth or grate on the feed-board of a cotton-gin, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. In testimony that I claim the above I have herenaine in the presence of two Witnesses.

F. M. MCMEEKIN.

Witnesses: v

J. W. TURNER, Sr., p J. W. TURNER, Jr.

and desire to secure byLetf 

